Time Change in Santiago, Chile: Google vs Microsoft
Yesterday I gloated that Santiago gained an hour and you know what I'd actually fact checked that one with Google. It's true. To prove I'm not crazy, I recently went back to take a screenshot of the truth-according-to-Google:
I mean, why look further? But if I had I would have found that Google had thrown me an hour off. Clicking on the first search result you get this:
Little did I know that this time battle has pit two internet titans against one another. Google says that Chile just fell back an hour and Microsoft says it won't Fall back until March 29, 2008. Microsoft, of course, in cahoots with the Chilean government by helping cripple Chile's technological future, no surprise then that they wouldn't miss a beat in reporting the government's strange extension of summer to save energy.
And judging by Microsoft's page they totally get Chile:
Because their market is a bleach bucktooth cuica facha who would go for an absurdly-priced piece of HP crap she has absolutely no idea what to do with but begged her plastic surgeon husband for it anyway because it's such an obscene status symbol she just can't do without. Oh, yeah, and bloggers who actually know about how sucky MS is compared to open source are, according to a chief Chilean MS exec, pelagatos or "nobodies" (gotta love the absurd medieval elitism that drives policy in Chile).
I'm going to side with Google on this one. I just gained an hour and nobody's going to take it back from me.
I mean, why look further? But if I had I would have found that Google had thrown me an hour off. Clicking on the first search result you get this:
Little did I know that this time battle has pit two internet titans against one another. Google says that Chile just fell back an hour and Microsoft says it won't Fall back until March 29, 2008. Microsoft, of course, in cahoots with the Chilean government by helping cripple Chile's technological future, no surprise then that they wouldn't miss a beat in reporting the government's strange extension of summer to save energy.
And judging by Microsoft's page they totally get Chile:
Because their market is a bleach bucktooth cuica facha who would go for an absurdly-priced piece of HP crap she has absolutely no idea what to do with but begged her plastic surgeon husband for it anyway because it's such an obscene status symbol she just can't do without. Oh, yeah, and bloggers who actually know about how sucky MS is compared to open source are, according to a chief Chilean MS exec, pelagatos or "nobodies" (gotta love the absurd medieval elitism that drives policy in Chile).
I'm going to side with Google on this one. I just gained an hour and nobody's going to take it back from me.
posted by Chileno @ 6:53 PM
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Gain an hour now...spend it waiting for people to arrive......my cellphone and computer both insisted on changing time..my computer even changed it AGAIN after I set it straight. Both were set on STGO time.
I think you are on to something here..maybe not that big...but something
>>>my computer even changed it AGAIN after I set it straight.
Stop resisting and join me.
>>>spend it waiting for people to arrive.
Just avoid people like I do and nobody can take your hour from you.
Well according to your timeanddate page and http://www.horaoficial.cl/ we still haven't gone back an hour =3 But if you've nothing to do with actual hours then yay for you XD I travel tomorrow to Canada and need the official hour or I'd miss my flight!
It's times like these when I'm happy that I work alone and time has no meaning for me :)
My computer keeps changing itself too but it doesn't really matter.
FCK YEAHH!!!!
You are totally lying, a misrepresentation.
That girl, judging by the looks of her, is from like Pudahuel, or Puente Alto.
For sure.
I live in one of the richest parts of town and my neighbors are darker than her ;-) Well, some of them. At least their tans would make Patrick Bateman jealous. Anyway time hasn't mattered for years. Have fun in Canada.
Oh my God, that was so annoying! Not knowing whether the time is supposed to change or not. The computer clock says one thing, internet another. Actually, I couldn't find ANY reliable source on the internet that would tell me the truth. How come there is not a single government site that would post the official dates for the time change?! Had to ask my nana, the only reliable source of information in this country.
The Chilean Internet is a bleak wasteland of Macromedia flash and hopeless e-government that makes the US' look good! Avoid it as much as you can and your life will be a lot easier. For such a "developed" country with a "miracle" economy, it's telling that a member of the despised class would be the one to carry you through something as simple as a time change.
BTW: it looks like google finally got its act together.
Half the computers at work are saying it's an hour earlier.
Not only that, but I swear CNN showed the time in Santiago as an hour earlier than it is.
I don't have to worry about keeping track of it, because they'll be sure to let everyone know so that people get to work on time.
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